I sit here on the morning of what the media are calling the “first Super Blue Blood Moon Trifecta since 1866,” shaking my head a bit at the word they missed–“eclipse.” But then how many types of “first” can you say in tandem before that mouthful reaches the point of the absurd? Perhaps this is

At last, we have reached the point where I began–Pluto’s shift in apparent motion to direct again. And with these shifts to retrograde and direct, back and forth like the pendulum swings–yes, a direct reference to Edgar Allen Poe for who better than he could describe the horror we often feel when Pluto makes its

UPDATE: It is with deep sadness that I have to report I’ve just learned on our evening news that my belief this was death by suicide was correct. The “victim” was an 18-yo girl who plugged her ears and deliberately stood on the tracks with her back to the oncoming train. She was suffering from